News tagged with environment
Study suggests flexible workplaces promote better health behavior and well-being
A flexible workplace initiative improved employees' health behavior and well-being, including a rise in the amount and quality of sleep and better health management, according to a new study by University of Minnesota sociology ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 06, 2011 |
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Nokia showcases indoor 3-D mapping phone solution (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nokia is showing off a prototype that location enthusiasts consider the next step in indoor mapping. Nokia has built a Location Extension Protocol on top of the Bluetooth 4.0 specification, ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Spanish brickie finds Facebook hacking flaw
A Spanish builder stumbled on an online loophole that enables users to send Facebook messages in other users' names, prompting an alert by authorities, he said Wednesday.
Nov 30, 2011 |
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Taking the pulse of an iceberg -- scientists simulate laser imaging for NASA missions
Monitoring glaciers and ice sheets is complicated work. They move and change shape. They melt.
Nov 29, 2011 |
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Lifelong learning that adapts to you
Technology enhanced lifelong learning that automatically adapts to the needs of the learner is now in sight thanks to work by EU-funded researchers who have developed an adaptive learning platform that can ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Quack medicines, insect immigrants, and what eats what among secrets revealed by DNA barcodes
The newfound scientific power to quickly "fingerprint" species via DNA is being deployed to unmask quack herbal medicines, reveal types of ancient Arctic life frozen in permafrost, expose what eats what in ...
Nov 27, 2011 |
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Ancient environment drives marine biodiversity, study says
Much of our knowledge about past life has come from the fossil record – but how accurately does that reflect the true history and drivers of biodiversity on Earth?
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2011 |
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EU agency: air pollution costs exceed $134 billion
(AP) -- Air pollution isn't just harmful - it's expensive, resulting in health care and environmental costs of more than euro100 billion ($130 billion) in 2009, the European Union's environment agency said Thursday.
Nov 24, 2011 |
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Preparing for future human exploration: Measuring the radiation environment on Mars
NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 instruments designed to search ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Invoked computing: Pizza box is too loud! I can't hear the banana
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the buzz word ubiquitous to any technology futurists and they will know what that implies. Hardware as we know it will recede. More people will communicate with words and images embedded ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Use of technology-rich learning environment reveals improved retention rates
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a technology-rich learning environment in several undergraduate engineering-technology courses has improved learning and decreased withdrawals from, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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MU engineers developing military applications for smartphones
Tracking military targets? The University of Missouri's College of Engineering has an app for that.
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Evolutionary practices in schools can benefit at-risk students
Helping at-risk high schoolers succeed in the classroom has always been difficult. Binghamton University Professor David Sloan Wilson thinks that he has a solution: design a school program that draws upon general theories ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Conservation body agrees to protect silky sharks
(AP) -- Delegates at an international conservation meeting agreed Saturday on a measure mandating that silky sharks accidentally caught in fishing gear be released back into the sea alive, marine advocacy ...
Nov 19, 2011 |
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NASA develops new game-changing technology
Two NASA California centers have been selected to develop new space-aged technologies that could be game-changers in the way we look at planets from above and how we safely transport robots or humans through ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2011 |
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